Goodbye to Mountain Forests?http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/goodbye-to-mountain-forests/Hillary Rosner, NYT blog, 25 June 2012When the smoke finally clears and new plant life pokes up from the scorched earth after the wildfires raging in the southern Rockies, what emerges will look radically different than what was there just a few weeks ago.

IEA says renewable energy growth to acceleratehttp://reneweconomy.com.au/2012/iea-says-renewable-energy-growth-to-accelerate-76483Giles Parkinson, RenewEconomy, 6 July 2012The International Energy Agency has delivered a bullish outlook for renewable technologies, saying its deployment would accelerate even beyond the rapid growth of recent years, despite the winding back of incentives and subsidies in some countries.

Hundreds of Australian businesses support carbon pricing to drive competitiveness http://www.b4ce.com.au/dms/bce/report/PR-BCE--July-2-Final_120602/PR%20BCE%20%20July%202%20Final_120602.pdfMedia Release, Monday 2 July 2012Almost 300 organisations have galvanised under the banner of Businesses for a Clean Economy to voice their support for putting a price on carbon. The 299 large, medium and small sized businesses and associations represent a wide variety of sectors from across the Australian economy and include AGL, ARUP, Fujitsu, GE, Grocon, HESTA, IKEA, Infigen, Pacific Hydro, The Body Shop Australia, Unilever, Vestas, and Westpac.

And now to the massive coal elephant in the roomhttp://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2012/07/04/3538041.htmLeigh Ewbank, ABC Environment, 4 Jul 2012Australia has officially joined the ranks of nations pricing carbon emissions to address climate change. With the policy taking effect after years of campaigning, political drama and debate, many will wonder 'what now?'

As oceans warm and become more acidic, Britain's seafood menu changeshttp://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/07/02/1Jeremy Lovell, E&E, Monday, July 2, 2012The seas around Britain are starting to teem with fish species once deemed exotic as climate change raises water temperatures, forcing the former dominant occupants to flee northward toward the Arctic and opening the way for those from the hotter south, according to marine and fisheries scientists.

Arctic Warming Linked to Combination of Reduced Sea Ice and Global Atmospheric Warminghttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120706164203.htmScienceDaily, July 6, 2012The combination of melting sea ice and global atmospheric warming are contributing to the high rate of warming in the Arctic, where temperatures are increasing up to four times faster than the global average, a new University of Melbourne study has shown.

Counting carbon: Pre-industrial emissions make a differencehttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/ci-ccp062912.phpEureka Alert, 3 July 2012When evaluating the historic contributions made by different countries to the greenhouse gasses found in Earth's atmosphere, calculations generally go back no further than the year 1840. New research from Carnegie's Julia Pongratz and Ken Caldeira shows that carbon dioxide contributions from the pre-industrial era still have an impact on our climate today.

Climate change linked to narrowing leaveshttp://theconversation.edu.au/climate-change-linked-to-narrowing-leaves-8076Justin Norrie, The Conversation, 4 July 2012Climate change is causing the leaves of at least one subspecies of Australian plant to narrow in size, a team from the University of Adelaide has found. Their study shows that the leaves of the Narrow-leaf hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa subspecies angustissima) have narrowed by 2mm since the 1880s – equivalent…

Top 20 Cities with Billions at Risk from Climate Changehttp://www.bloomberg.com/slideshow/2012-07-06/top-20-cities-with-billions-at-risk-from-climate-change.htmlEric Roston, Bloomberg, Jul 6, 2012By 2050, more than 6 billion humans are expected to live in cities, according to the United Nations. Ports, which constitute more than half the world's largest cities, will face unique challenges as their populations swell.By 2050, more than 6 billion humans are expected to live in cities, according to the United Nations. Ports, which constitute more than half the world's largest cities, will face unique challenges as their populations swell.